Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything. You’ll possess spiritual powers that can’t be obstructed. And you’ll be at peace wherever you are. Zen Master Bodhidharma (quote thanks to the Shelburne Zen Center newsletter)
We live in changing times of course, yet the eternal is unchanging and the source of all we know. Inspiration comes from breathing in life in each moment, but also as Nabokov says, with the magic that surrounds us. Peace is a choice of being.
I discovered in nature the nonutilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception. Vladimir Nabokov (quote thanks to his story “Butterflies” in The New Yorker)
from Shuvinai Ashoona “Mapping Worlds”
Exhibit at Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, QC